Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:14:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, David Greenman <dg@root.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, FreeBSD Chat <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Why no Indians and Arabs? Message-ID: <3C1CE49E.39FBBED2@mindspring.com> References: <20011216044542.Y86103-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <004401c18635$2bd802d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1CAAEC.636A8975@mindspring.com> <005b01c1863f$3fa9aa70$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3C1CC27C.FAF0A04F@mindspring.com> <007601c18652$f4d62640$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > BTW, you haven't answered my question: Which "IE specific tags" am I using? > The pages validate as correct, standard HTML, which would necessarily > exclude any IE-specific code. Unbalanced tags (e.g open table element with no close tag). Automatic tag balancing being implied by the browser for all tags is an SGML feature; the HTML tag implied balancing is not true for all tags, according to the specification, amking the behaviour "undefined", rather thna "standard". > > Yet, you post things designed to drive controversy ... > > I compel people to defend unsubstantiated opinions. People who cannot > substantiate their opinions tend to think of that as "driving controversy" > or "being difficult" or think of it in any one of a dozen other negative > ways, but that is just rationalization. Luckily, the vast majority of my opinions are substantiated, and in the rare cases they are not, I have no problem defending them (usually on the basis of Occam's Razor, and the fact that light bulbs work). > Most visitors are first-time visitors. On extremely rare occasions, someone > still saddled with Netscape 4.x has asked why my pages display as a jumble > on her screen, and I've suggested that she upgrade to Netscape 6.x (if she > absolutely must stick with Netscape) or better still, to MSIE or possibly > Opera. I'd be happy to install IE for FreeBSD, if it weren't for the monopolistic practices which have precluded it from being ported. I would even run it under Linux emulation, if need be. [ ... comments on the marginal utility of UNIX desktops ... ] Which begs the question of why you post to these lists, which are not specifically intended for Windows advocacy... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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